Affective Curriculum
Small-group affective curriculum can be effective for helping gifted students develop positive social and emotional skills. Annually, thousands of gifted students participate in summer camps, experience advanced curriculum, and enjoy interacting with intellectual peers. With support from the JKCF Hope+ grant beginning in 2011, a well-grounded affective curriculum with a small group format has been developed and incorporated into the GERI summer enrichment program which acknowledges the importance of attention to the whole gifted child. The young-adult facilitators are all live-in hall resources for the residential program. Almost none have professional training in counseling. Feedback from campers and staff at the end of the experience reflected that, with careful preparation of materials and appropriate staff training, an affective curriculum can be incorporated into a program without increasing costs. The presenters here will introduce this model and share insights about how to effectively incorporate affective curriculum into a summer enrichment program—residential or non-residential.
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Topics of the Affective curriculum
The book, Essential Guide for Talking with Gifted Teens, was used as a referenced book in the curriculum. For most topics, detailed suggestions and background knowledge of the topics were cited from this book and included in materials folders for the young-adult group facilitators. “Activity sheets” cited from the book or new designed for some specific topics were often used to help the high-ability teens self-reflect, particularly helpful for shy teens and teens without proficiency in oral English. If you have any question, please contact Enyi Jen [email protected] |